The Bourne Legacy Producer Jeffrey Weiner on Who Would Win in a Fight Between Jeremy Renner and Matt Damon

In light of *The Bourne Legacy's *recent release, we caught up with an unlikely figure behind the scenes of the successful franchise, producer Jeffrey Weiner. Weiner has served as managing partner of a national accounting firm, Marcum LLP, for more than 20 years and became *Bourne-*series author Robert Ludlum’s estate executor when he died in 2001. As the film adaptations took off, Weiner established a production company at Universal, which now works on up to 30 films at any given time. All this, and Weiner still maintains his accounting duties. VF Daily caught up with the C.P.A./film producer to learn more about his unique job. Highlights from our chat:

__VF Daily:__How did you come to inherit the rights to Robert Ludlum’s Bourne Legacy?

Jeffery Weiner: Robert Ludlum was a client of mine while he was alive, and when he died he named me as the executor of his estate. Besides my role at Marcum running that business, I took over running Robert Ludlum’s as well. When he died in 2001 we had still been in the process of filming The Bourne Identity. That movie hadn’t come out yet when he passed away.

Was he on set for the filming?

Bob was around for a lot of the filming. But the movie was released in 2002—which was a year after he passed away—and it really elevated his business and his fame to a new level. He was always a well-known and best-selling writer, but didn’t really have much success in the movies until the Doug Liman version of The Bourne Identity.

Do you ever see yourself leaving accounting for the movie business full-time?

I like them both. I have a good balance in life between work and time off and leisure and sports and family. Right now they both give me challenges I enjoy, so I haven’t been forced to make that decision. I make up my day or my schedule as I go along.

What was it like working with Jeremy Renner on The Bourne Legacy?

Jeremy’s great. I think the good thing that came out of this movie is we’ve started a second franchise now. There’s room to have a Matt Damon franchise as well as a Jeremy Renner franchise.

Which one would win in a fight?

I don’t know [laughs]. I wouldn’t want to get in the middle of that one, though.